Dems demand that GOP condemn Limbaugh

More than 75 Democratic lawmakers are calling on House Republican leaders to condemn radio host Rush Limbaugh’s controversial remarks on Sandra Fluke, the law student who was barred from testifying about contraception before a congressional committee.

In a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Democrats called Limbaugh’s words “sexually charged, patently offensive, and obscene.”

“Mr. Limbaugh is as free as any American to speak his mind about the political and social issues of our time,” wrote Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), accompanied by dozens of fellow House Democrats. “But using his radio show as a means for blatantly insulting a hard-working American with obscene and indecent language because he disagrees with her personal choices is an abuse of the public airwaves.”

Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown University, has become a star of sorts since she was barred from testifying at a recent House committee hearing focusing on the Obama administration’s contraception rule. House Democrats convened a hearing last week with Fluke as the sole witness, where Fluke recounted instances of fellow students at Georgetown who couldn’t afford contraceptives. Birth control, she said, could cost upwards of $3,000 during a student’s law school tenure at Georgetown.